Co-Mo Electric is rolling out fiber to Otterville, MO next year, after which I'm moving there. From small town to smaller town, but from slow cable to fast fiberoptic. Win!
Any idea if there's some sort of meetup-alternative for tech-minded people moving into the area? Just based on this thread, Co-Mo Connect and other rural fiber initiatives seem to be attracting a fair number of developers/entrepreneurs. It'd be great to all get in touch with each other.
I was recently kicked off of Facebook for lack of an "Authentic Name." Humorously my name was my legal name.
Getting kicked off of Facebook was the best thing to happen to my productivity and mood. My only frustration is that there are several people on Facebook I have no easy method of giving alternative contact info to.
I think it is a bit of a generalization to say younger people mix business and personal lives.
Opposite of you, I'm in my late 20s, the youngest person in my organization; and I get Facebook friend requests from people in their 40s and 50s that I only know at work.
Perhaps it is more accurate to say people who do not have the same values in privacy as you use things like Facebook differently.
I certainly didn't mean to imply that only younger people do.
The overall point I was making is that the world is changing, and it's fair to point out that it's young people that are the primary agents of that change. Hell, people younger than you built facebook. I don't think my generalization was over-reaching.
I received an email from Vanguard regarding $20 for taking a survey. It seemed phishy as the domain that it was sent from wasn't @vanguard.com (or similar) and the enticement of a monetary award.
I contacted Vanguard regarding this and forwarded them the email. The representative thought it was a phishing attempt as well. I was later contacted by Vanguard and they told me it was legitimate. I was even able to contact the person that wrote the email through a Vanguard number.
Many cards in America have foreign transaction fees. There may be other fees associated as well.
That said I have looked into cards with no foreign transaction fees for future international travel. They do exist, but one more issue is making sure they support "chip and pin" for European countries.
The Chase card I have for use here in Italy works fine with no chip. There's an annual fee though, so I'm not sure whether I'll keep it beyond the first year; I'll have to look and see how much it's saved me.
According to the article, that's exactly where it came from.
Sadly, the symbols mentioned in the article aren't always used the way they should. For instance, earlier today there was a link on HN about an HTML5 audio player, Speakker [1], which uses the standby symbol as a play button. Confuses the hell out of me.
But, that is with the federal government. 3 Weeks vacation + holidays & sick leave is nice, but with furloughs I'm beginning to look elsewhere for employment.
I know spacex is hiring, a buddy of mine left for them.
I don't know your level of experience, and don't take this as rude, but in the DC area, which isn't as expensive as SF I believe, seasoned developers are getting GS13s and 14s here.
I was recently offered a GS14 step 8 (which I think is around $110k or so) for Python development.
Its pretty simple to command 80-100k job in the DC area just working for government contractors. 4 years experience and solid dev skills of the major languages will fetch 95k a year in DC.
I asked my friend, a native German, about that last summer when I was in Germany.
She said a lot of times that money does not even go to the person cleaning the toilets.
I did pay 1 euro to use a bathroom in a train station. It seemed to be similar to US truck stop bathroom/showers. As soon as I left they cleaned the bathroom.
